Aaron Cantú, a staff writer for the Santa Fe Reporter and an editor at the New Inquiry, was arrested along with 230 others in January when he was covering the inauguration protests as a freelance journalist. The six other journalists arrested and charged with rioting have since seen their charges dropped, but charges…
In response to questioning from Sen. Susan Collins during Thursday’s Senate Intel hearing, former FBI Director James Comey revealed that after Trump published a tweet indicating that he had recordings of conversations they’d had, he decided to leak the contents of his memo in the hopes that a special prosecutor would…
Chris Cillizza, a hackneyed Arrested Development reaction gif with a high-paying journalism job, had one of his trademark run-ins with the “outrage police” this week, when he tweeted something dumb and was told by many people that it was dumb. Here was the thing:
This week, one little attack on a reporter by a temporarily insane politician has us all fretting over the “Rough Treatment of Journalists in the Trump Era.” The real threat to journalism is much more insidious.
A short column titled “Winning the Appropriation Prize” published in early May has sparked a small but fiery debate in the Canadian literary community over race, representation, and, for some, free speech. The column appeared in Write, a small magazine produced by the Writer’s Union of Canada (TWUC); in it, Hal…
Today I received a text from my best friend, who had just received the latest print issue of Psychology Today. She was put off by the cover image—it promotes an article on toxic behavior—and wanted a second opinion. So without further ado, here it is: wow, Psychology Today, this photograph is repugnantly sexist! So…
On Tuesday, the New York Times published an op-ed penned by an employee of the Human Coalition, an anti-abortion group that, among its many outreach programs, uses search engine optimization to redirect “abortion-determined women” to Coalition-run crisis pregnancy centers in four cities.
Far-right, white supremacist troll and former Breitbart tech editor and book deal-haver, Milo Yiannopoulos, is making another ill-advised foray into the national spotlight he so desperately craves with a new media company called—what else—Milo Inc.
This week, the New York Times—a paper which has seen subscriptions soar as The Resistance seeks its media savior—hired Bret Stephens, formerly of the Wall Street Journal, as its newest opinion columnist. Allow us to offer you a broad sample of his past work.
Behold, a tale of two articles: one from the New York Times, another from Politico. According to these two completely contradictory reports, Trump’s supporters are standing steadfastly by his side and also somehow rapidly turning against him. They are furious, and also they are fine. They are lying passed out on an…
On Wednesday, the Daily Mail settled two lawsuits from Melania Trump regarding an August article the British paper published that claimed that a modeling agency she once worked for in the ’90s was actually an escort service. The paper officially retracted and apologized for the story, and agreed to pay damages, though…
We—along with Cesar, who works at the deli counter—would like to extend our congratulations to our friend Peggy Noonan, who has just been awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. On Ronald Reagan, and other matters.
Not so long ago, Nick Denton used to boast that Gawker Media was the last true beachhead of “independent media” in America. How quickly things change. Does “independent media” even mean anything, any more? Did it ever?
On Saturday morning, Inept-Deal-Maker-in-Chief Donald Trump got on Twitter yet again, this time to tell his followers to tune in to Jeanine Pirro’s Fox News joint, Justice.
If you still haven’t gotten around to doing your taxes, you’ve got a big advantage over the early birds: $10 in additional savings on H&R Block tax filing software, courtesy of Amazon.
On Thursday night, South Korean president Park Geun-Hye was officially ousted from her office after a special Constitutional Court decision upheld her impeachment. For the majority of Koreans, it’s the end of a grueling three-month trial and a longer national scandal. But during the biggest crisis in South Korea’s…
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD—On Friday, during his speech at CPAC, self-described First Amendment fan Donald Trump railed against the “dishonest media” for what seemed like the 34,299th time. Predictably, the crowd booed loudly at the press, including at the reporters typing away at laptops in the back of the hall. Of course,…
You DVD collection may have just gotten into BDSM. Right now, if you bundle Fifty Shades of Grey and Fifty Shades Darker on Blu-ray, you’ll immediately save $5. Rumor has it, Fifty Shades Darker wasn’t actually all that terrible, plus, at the very least, you could probably masturbate to the soundtrack.
On Sunday, Republican senator John McCain appeared—remotely—on NBC’s Meet the Press, where he pussyfooted around critiques of President Trump while still implying that his administration is bucking against the order of the free world. He did, however, state outright that “President Trump is not trying to be a…
Why would St. Louis mayoral candidate and city treasurer Tishaura Jones, who is weeks away from the city’s March 7 primary election, decline an opportunity to discuss her platform with the city’s major newspaper? Because the editorial board and a host of reporters at the St. Louis-Post Dispatch have been inking the…
